Jane II No sooner had I finished last week’s review than Shannon Hale’s Austenland turned up on my desk.

What would Jane do? You’ll learn how to dress, how to pay a morning call, how to behave at a dinner party.

The Jane Austen Book Club Robin Swicord’s film posits a book club of six Californians meeting once a month to discuss Jane Austen’s novels.

Dead white females Can you remember the last time you curled up under the covers with Marcel Proust’s I n Search of Lost Time ?

Masterpieces and mysteries It is a truth universally acknowledged, that there cannot be too many Jane Austen adaptations for film and television.

Miss perfect I know what you're thinking: " Another Emma ? Didn't we just have a bushel of Jane Austen adaptations for TV?" Well, WGBH did give us four new Austens, but that was all the way back in 2008, a Jane-ite eternity.

Jane Austen + Grinder Girl Occasionally, my editor would remind me that I have written about balls and pucks, but never monster trucks.